Retro Gaming News
Porkour! One of our favourite subgenres of licensed games is when a developer takes an established IP and pretty much decides to do whatever it wants with it, essentially using it to make the game of their dreams. In the past, for instance, we’ve spoken to Digital Eclipse’s president Mika Mika briefly about how that…
“Every typo could mean the difference between life and death”. Auroch Digital has just released a free-to-play spin-off of its boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun that pays tribute to Sega’s classic The Typing of the Dead. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance is a “creative twist” on the 2023 FPS title, which is based…
Blaze Of Storm sees players battling an unknown threat in cyberspace. Terarin Games, the Japanese indie development studio behind games such as Missile Dancer, Crystal Breaker, and Terra Flame, has just released the first demo for its upcoming shoot ’em up Blaze Of Storm on Steam. Described as “a standard vertical scrolling shmup”, the story…
“We didn’t finish the experience. But it was a magical thing”. Peter Molyneux is one of the most famous game designers the industry has ever seen, and has been involved with seminal titles like Populous, Black & White, Theme Park and Fable. He’s also known for hyping up his projects, sometimes to the point where…
With a bonus page, to boot. Game Boy-focused fanzine Yokoi Kids recently saw its second issue, but the first one has been sold out for a while. Thank goodness, then, that the team behind the magazine have decided to make its debut issue available in digital form, giving anyone who missed out the first time…
“Now the game can reach a much deserved western audience”. The 1998 Japanese PS1 exclusive Wonder Trek is finally playable in English, thanks to the efforts of the fan translation community. Developed by Zest Works and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Wonder Trek places you in the boots of zoologist Nick, who crash-lands on a…
Drops next week online and in stores. The British designer menswear brand Luke 1977 is launching a new collection of Street Fighter-related clothing later this month. The exclusive collection, which includes five t-shirts as well as two hoodies emblazoned with characters like Ryu and Akuma, is set to launch next week on Wednesday, May 28th,…
With first-person perspectives included… Fans of FPS titles will hopefully have heard of (and even read) Stuart Maine’s superb I’m Too Young To Die, published by Bitmap Books back in 2022. A comprehensive look at some of the most significant titles in the genre released between 1992 and 2002 (as well as some of its…
A second demo is in the works. If you put us on the spot and asked us to name our most eagerly anticipated Super Mario World hacks, Super Mario World Random Revolution First Blood would undoubtedly make the list. Initially announced in 2021 on SMWCentral as “the first of a group of hacks” all starting…
v3.2 is now available. The ModRetro Chromatic has just been blessed with a new firmware update, and this one allows you to stream from the system directly to Discord. Firmware v3.2 also comes with various changes and bugfixes for the FPGA-power Game Boy Color clone, developed by ModRetro, the retro-focused company founded by Palmer Luckey—someone…